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Françoise d’Eaubonne’s Ecofeminism
by
Iris Derzelle
, 22 March
An Overlooked Left Wing Perspective
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The Rising Invisible Majority
by
Alessandro Arrigoni
&
Emanuele Ferragina
, 1 March
When Fiction Meets Social Science
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Why Central Bankers Should Read Economic History
by
Éric Monnet
, 8 February
How can economic policy-makers use economic history as a guide for their deliberations and decisions? Focusing on the case of...
Articles
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Towards an Ecological Cinema
by
Olivier Dorlin
, 23 January 2019
Hollywood cinema tends to represent climate change in catastrophist and sensationalistic movies. By contrast, a new type of...
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Ending the Anthropocene
by
Claire Sagan
, 22 January 2019
Predictive models in ecology generally assume that capitalism will be maintained. However, as Claire Sagan argues, adapting...
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Corporate Responsibility in the Climate Crisis
by
Swann Bommier
&
Cécile Renouard
, 21 January 2019
The climate crisis demands that corporations be envisioned as “commons”, and that they serve the protection of the material and...
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Logistical Meanderings
by
Carlotta Benvegnù
&
David Gaborieau
, 7 January 2019
When Working Class Mobility Transits Through the Warehouse
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The Bitcoin El Dorado
by
Ludovic Desmedt
&
Odile Lakomski-Laguerre
, 27 December 2018
Conceived by its inventors as the basis of a new monetary order, Bitcoin seems to have been overtaken by finance and become...
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Ireland’s Silences: the Magdalene Laundries
by
Nathalie Sebbane
, 24 December 2018
Thanks to the success of Peter Mullan’s film The Magdalene Sisters, Magdalene laundries—institutions meant to punish Ireland’s...
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The color of France’s “yellow vests”
by
Aurélien Delpirou
, 17 December 2018
Jacquerie, revolt of the peripheries, or revenge of the working class? The initial analysis of the “yellow vest” (gilets...
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The Price of the Planet
by
Nicolas Bouleau
, 12 December 2018
By setting the prices of raw materials, financial markets influence our relation to the environment. Nicolas Bouleau examines...
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Do Philanthropists Actually Love the Planet?
by
Edouard Morena
, 11 December 2018
Capitalism, climate change and philanthropy
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The Unlikely State of Climate Justice
by
Geoff Mann
&
Joel Wainwright
, 10 December 2018
Can we rely on national governments to tackle climate change? Is a green capitalist state possible? For Geoff Mann and Joel...
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What Non-Demand Demands
by
Philippe Warin
, 3 December 2018
On the non-take-up of social welfare
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The Social Diplomacy of Multinational Corporations
by
Marieke Louis
, 19 November 2018
Just as an international treaty on the social responsibility of multinational corporations is being negotiated at the United...
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Forcing Vaccine Progress
by
Oumy Thiongane
, 8 November 2018
Financial interests and health policies in the Philippines
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How Oracles Are Forged
by
François Héran
, 5 November 2018
The prophecy of an African scramble for Europe
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Prisoners on Strike in the United States
by
Joël Charbit
&
Gwenola Ricordeau
, 15 October 2018
The Unionization Strategy Put to the Test
Essay
LGBT
: Chinese and Online
by
Tao Hong
&
Lucas Monteil
, 11 October 2018
After surfacing in the 1990s, the LGBT movement has continued to take hold in China, despite the new Chinese leadership’s...
Essay
The Almost Perfect Baby
by
Jean-Hugues Déchaux
, 17 September 2018
Genetics, reproduction, and eugenics
Essay
Where Does the Left Stand in India?
by
Jules Naudet
&
Stéphanie Tawa-Lama Rewal
, 10 September 2018
In India as in Europe, the left wing is struggling. Looking beyond the financialisation of the economy and disparities in...
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Mary Douglas, A Taste for Hierarchy
by
François Buton
&
Eric Soriano
, 9 July 2018
Though poorly known in France, the work of the anthropologist Mary Douglas is nonetheless essential for understanding the...
Essay
Some Kind of Pope
by
Anthony Favier
, 18 June 2018
On the 5th anniversary of Pope Francis’ election to the throne of St. Peter, Anthony Favier reflects on the career path and...
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Non-replicable
by
Aurélien Allard
, 28 May 2018
The methodological crisis in experimental science
Essay
Narcotic Addiction in America
by
Irène Delcourt
, 30 April 2018
In the midst of the recent “opioids crisis”, President Trump has vowed to carry on the war on drugs. Yet the problem of...
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The New German Far Right
by
Élisa Goudin
, 9 April 2018
The recent rise of the far right has disrupted the political balance in Germany. Its racism illustrates the failings of both...
Essay
Politics on Display
by
Jinrui Xi
, 5 April 2018
What happens when the curtain is briefly lifted on Chinese opaque politics? This article examines the importance and...
Essay
The Islam of Converts
by
Juliette Galonnier
, 2 April 2018
The religious convert is a figure of fear and fascination today. Looking beyond clichés, Juliette Galonnier’s investigation in...
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The Bikini Strategy
by
Jennifer Bidet
, 29 March 2018
Gender and Class Relations in Algeria
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Cow Terrorism
by
Mathieu Ferry
, 26 March 2018
The sacredness of the cow and the religious proscription against the consumption of beef were invented as late as the...
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Rethinking Odious Debt
by
Pierre Pénet
, 19 March 2018
The doctrine of ‘odious debt’ has often been invoked to call for the cancellation of debts in very specific and complex...
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Ronald Coase: A Century of Economics
by
Élodie Bertrand
, 8 March 2018
Ronald Coase (1910-2013), the 1991 Nobel Laureate in Economics, is famous for his oft-quoted and just as often misunderstood...
Essay
Denouncing Denigration
by
Abigail Saguy
, 27 February 2018
#metoo and #balancetonporc
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How to Live in a Hostile World
by
Michal Kozlowski
, 22 February 2018
On the Polish Paradox
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Miguel Abensour: Emancipation through Utopia
by
Nicolas Poirier
, 8 February 2018
Miguel Abensour profoundly renewed thinking about democracy. His political philosophy paid close attention to the desire for...
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Michel Chevalier: Visionary of Modern Europe?
by
Michael Drolet
, 29 January 2018
Leading 19th century statesman, political economist, architect of the 1860 commercial treaty between France and the United...
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Heaven for Hull?
by
Yann Béliard
, 25 January 2018
From “crap town” to
UK
City of Culture 2017
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Personifying the Whanganui River
by
Hal Levine
, 21 December 2017
Ecological Solution or Political Stratagem?
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Françoise Héritier’s Activist Structuralism
by
Salvatore D’Onofrio
, 20 November 2017
By asserting that structuralism is a fruitful approach to kinship relations or the difference between the sexes, Françoise...
Essay
Hyperincarcerated
by
Adèle Momméja
, 6 November 2017
Can journalism advance knowledge in the field of social science? Two investigations published by the New York Times have...
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Spain’s Digital Civil War
by
Alvaro Santana Acuña
, 27 October 2017
Today, while tension between Catalonia and Spain ebbs and flows, a digital civil war is being fought on social media. No...
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A Crash-Course in Femininity?
by
Alice Bonzom
, 23 October 2017
Female criminals in the Victorian and Edwardian era
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The Real Story of Haiti’s Forests
by
Lucile Maertens
&
Adrienne Stork
, 9 October 2017
Changing the narrative around deforestation and charcoal in Haiti
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